Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-11-17
RAIL AND TIE.
A New Road from Ramona
to San BernardinO.
SURVEYORS NOW AT WORK
The Chief Movers in the Salt Lake
and Los Angeles Railroad
to Arrive To-day.

Yesterday morning the open ground
at the Ramona Water Company't
reservoir presented most active ap
pearance. At 5 o'clock there was
nothing at the place mentioned except
the company's property. At o'clock
two large wagons, one drawn by six
and the other by four splendid speci.
mems of the equine race, made their
appearance. In these wagons, ON
high spring seats, sat nineteen people,
and underneath them was stored an
immense amount OF baggage, camp
utensils, etc. Both the wagons and
teams belonged tothe Southern Pacific
company, and the men in them were
in its employ as surveyors.
Sunday evening party of sur
veyors, camped and working
at San Bernardino, received
orders to pack up and be ready to
change their quarters the next day.
Everything was in confusion. Unfn-
ished maps and work of every kind
had to be hastily slowed away for
future completion, tents were taken
down, and, with camp utensils of
every description, thrown into the
wagons and then wagons, horses and
all, were placed aboard the train,
ready to be hauled to their destina-
ton the next day. Monday night,
tired and dusty, the entire party
alighted upon the platform of the
depot at San Gabriel, and went into
camp for the night. Early yesterday
morning everything was gotten ready
and the party started for the Ramona
reservoir, and there the HERALD's
representative found them making
arrangements for protracted stay.
Mr.. Frank Sumner, the gentleman
in charge, during the absence of Chief
Surveyor Griffith, was found getting
ready to start out with party of men
to survey line of the proposed road.
Upon being questioned he said that
he only had very limited instructions,
that he had been ordered to take the
party there and camp and wait for
Mr.. Griffith to appear with full details
of the work to be done. No one in
the party knew what was going on
except that new survey was to be
made Immediately. Where it was, or
exactly what it was for, he stated,
none could tell. In the afternoon Mr..
Sumner took corps, consisting of ten
men, in the cline" wagon and
drove rapidly to Shorb's winery,
distant about half mile from Ra
mona station. Here he placed his
instrument, and line running due
north about two miles long, was veri
fed. 1t was an old survey which
proposed to run from Ramona north
through Shorb's vineyard, when it
would turn northeast to point
little north Of Pasadena, between that
place and the Altadena line. The
party believed that the line is to be
verified so that the work of grading
may be commenced at once. From the
point north of Pasadena the line will
turn east, and pass through the Sierra
Madre tract, Arcadia, Monrovia,
Duarte, Azusa, Mud Springs and Cuca-
monga, running parallel with the Cal
ifornia Central road into San Bernar-
dino. 1t is claimed that the line, as
proposed, will be a paying institution
from the time the first train passes
over it until the end OF its existence.
The camp is pitched about a mile
and a half from Ramona, and con-
tains everything necessary for the
thorough mapping out of new road.
Besides the sleeping tents, of which
there are three, an Office for the
draughtsman, commissary depart
ment and thoroughly equipped kitch-
en- are on the grounds. Water is OBJ
tanned from the hydrant leading from
the pipe that supplies the reservoir.
Added to these advantages is the prox-
unity of the towns of Pasadena, Ramo-
ma and San Gabriel, and the jolly
"gang" of'surveyors count on having
very fine time there, until hurriedly
ordered elsewhere.